Oklahoma governor signs law banning bans on plastic bags

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8. Can they stop businesses from refusing to provide plastic bags?

I've read that in some places businesses are voluntarily not providing plastic bags or only providing them if a fee is paid. I would bet that if many businesses started that practice, either the Oklahoma government would back down, or as many Republicans are wont to do, they would double down and try to ban businesses from refusing to give plastic bags to their customers.

After all, isn't the use of plastic bags that hold little and break if you load much into them every customer's "Gawd given right"?

(Lately, a law was passed in France forbidding plastic bags in shops, to prevent pollution and people throwing plastic bags everywhere. Where I work, the CEO has decided to offer paper bags that cost 0,05 euros. You can, of course, leave without a bag or use one of your own. It is a Friday night. I am the youngest salesperson in the shop, so I have to attend the cash register. I also attend college for English studies. A man comes up to me with several items. At that moment, I don’t realise he is American and that he doesn’t speak fluent French.)

Me: “Would you like a paper bag?”

Customer: “I don’t care. Give me a plastic bag.”

Me: “I am sorry, sir. We don’t have them anymore; we just have those bags that cost 0,05 euros.”
More: https://notalwaysright.com/five-cents-to-save-the-whales-is-too-much-for-some/119212/